Equal Dark, Equal Light

First day of Fall... the Autumn Equinox, is a hot dry day where I  live.

Here are some poems by other writers  to celebrate it:

"Lord, it is time.

The summer was very big.

Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose.

Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days,

press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetness into the heavenly wine."

-  Rainer Maria Rilke

"Equal dark, equal light

Flow in Circle, deep insight

Blessed Be, Blessed Be

The transformation of energy!

So it flows, out it goes

Three-fold back it shall be

Blessed Be, Blessed Be

The transformation of energy!"

-  Night An'Fey, Transformation of Energy

"Smoke hangs like haze over harvested fields,

The gold of stubble, the brown of turned earth

And you walk under the red light of fall

The scent of fallen apples, the dust of threshed grain

The sharp, gentle chill of fall.

Here as we move into the shadows of autumn

The night that brings the morning of spring

Come to us, Lord of Harvest

Teach us to be thankful for the gifts you bring us ..."

-  Autumn Equinox Ritual

"Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these

Of mid September; through the still warm noon

The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune

Than ever in the summer; from the trees

Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies,

No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon

In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon

Finds motionless white mists out on the leas."

-  Edward Dowden, In September

Coming of Autumn        David Hemminger